He goes on to portray some devices similar to modern planetary engineering or terraforming, and paint-balls.

"I think the planetary engineering is more a result of extensive social control and sonics than ultra-high-tech."

'Uh, this is one of the authorities on planetary engineering,' he said.

And then, since usable worlds aren't that common, they'd start to learn planetary engineering.

This act of planetary engineering was the most ambitious, arrogant, and successful of all the works of man in space.

As they write in their paper, "the general problem of long-term planetary engineering is almost alarmingly feasible" using current technologies.

How much understanding of the world in question do we need before planetary engineering can be relied upon to produce the desired end state?

As the air thickened, they all wanted to get cm with their cherished damned planetary engineering.

They think it has to do with some planetary engineering conducted by the Zonn.

The term is sometimes used more generally as a synonym for planetary engineering, although some consider this more general usage an error.